Show MAXIUM RATE RA UW f I Suits St ts Instituted Against Three Roads Beads r rI I TO ATO YS t ACTIONS ENTIRELY SEPARATE FROM THOSE TOSE PENDING PEN PENI I Were Piled Filed ie in i Nebraska District Di ct Courts For Against A AUnon Ag Union Unon Pacific Pac Against A t to Missouri o Pacific and a 1 r rI From FIte the Bock oc Island I Lincoln Neb March ach 16 Attorney General Generl Smythe today began suit sIt sItI I against gitt three Nebraska railroad com I panics panes for damages damage aggregating 67 0 Suits Sut are filed fIe In the district courts court of three thre counties countes In Colfax for fol against the Union Pacific in Saline for tor 2100 against the Missouri Pacific and in be Thayer for 1500 against the Rock Rok leland Ilari The he damages damage demanded are penalties which the attorney gen general sn eral er says saya are due for alleged violation of the te Nebraska maximum rate te law aw The he suits suit are ae entirely separate from those thos now nw pending in the supreme court against the same roads The action acton is remarkable In view of the fact that the supreme court cur of the United States Stat held that the Nebraska rate law was wa unconstitutional Attorney Ator Attorney ney General Generl Smythe contends that te the decision holds good only in so 6 far as a It affects the Scheduled rates mates rates fixed fed by the law and d that the principle of thy th leg legislative legislative enactment Is he 1 inoperative The T supreme court it Is maintained de do declared dared clare that certain schedules were un unreasonably unreasonably reasonably low but did not pass pas upon the mris of the law as a a whole whole The action acton comes come as a the greatest surprise to railroad attorneys who regarded the supreme court decision as a the whole question oi of a maximum freight frIght rates in this state |